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...perhaps 90% of the tactical weapons. The republics talk , of dismantling many of these arms; Ukraine and Belorussia insist they eventually want no nukes whatsoever on their soil. But it is by no means certain that the republics can agree, among themselves and with what remains of Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin government, on any program for actually achieving those aims before the momentum of dissolution leads to far different results: bitter squabbles over who controls the strategic weapons and a possible leakage of tactical warheads into irresponsible hands...
What was George Bush up to? Until last week, he was busily trying to bolster President Mikhail Gorbachev in his struggle to keep the Soviet Union intact. Then on Thanksgiving eve Bush's staff leaked a startling message: the U.S. was ready to recognize an independent Ukraine -- even before Ukrainians had voted for it in a referendum...
...Gorbachev's statement] is a sort of hyperbole," Saroyan said. "But it is a political catastrophe...
Grabowicz said he felt Gorbachev's statement was nonsense and added that he thought Gorbachev really meant "it's a catastrophe for me, but in his pompous manner he replaced mankind for himself...
...Many people, Bush, Mitterand and others made a personal investment in Gorbachev, but he's on his way out," he said. "There is no evidence of strife in the Ukraine and the prognosis is good...